Professional mobilities in the creative industries: The role of “place” for young people aspiring for a creative career

Within creative industries policy, two themes have been situated as central to the needs of the creative economy: the economic importance of place and the role of education in delivering a better-equipped workforce. However, these themes have rarely overlapped in either policy thinking or academic research, and so this article focuses on the relationship between place, education and professional aspirations for young people. Using the findings from qualitative interviews with media studies students within higher education (HE), this article analyses how the perceived attributes of some locations may provide industry credibility and the promise of enhanced professional mobility. It examines the tangible and symbolic value of place within young people's career development in the creative industries. The findings highlight how the links between place and education can influence the professional process, and how place shapes young people's perceptions of and opportunities for work in the creative industries. Finally, this research emphasises how current theories on creative industries policy and HE provision need to be extended to take greater account of the ways in which the attributes of localities can be used as a catalyst for individual professionalism amongst young people, and the ways in which certain places (mainly rural) may be disadvantaged in the current policy trajectory.     

城市近郊统筹城乡改革的经验、困难与深化——重庆“陶家模式”和“海龙模式”的比较与启示

重庆市统筹城乡发展改革在九龙坡区陶家镇和海龙村的试点较为成功,其共同点在于注重以工促农、社会保障和土地集约,而在改革主导角色、农民身份转变和土地流转方式上各具特色。"陶家模式"和"海龙模式"的实践证明:中小企业是统筹城乡发展的纽带,农民增收是统筹城乡改革顺利推进的关键,土地政策是统筹城乡发展的核心问题,统筹城乡发展需要系统思考与政策创新。目前,两种模式的深化发展,面临土地政策供给不足、社会保障推力不够、城乡规划视野不宽、政策落实不到位、资源要素流通不畅、管理体制不顺等困难。应进一步探索土地集约利用的新机制,加快城乡一体的社会保障体系建设,充分保障农转城人员的利益,推进城乡科学规划,破除农村投资樊篱,并提升各级政府的统筹发展能力。     

基于TOPSIS法的城市物流与城市经济发展协调性差异比较分析——以合肥都市圈为例

文章基于2014年合肥都市圈的物流业与经济发展数据,利用TOPSIS法对合肥都市圈各城市的物流与经济之间的协调性进行了评价,分析了各城市之间的差异。结果显示合肥、六安的城市物流与城市经济协调性与最优协调性之间的接近度高于0.5,城市物流与城市经济之间存在较高程度的互促共进关系;淮南、滁州的城市物流与城市经济协调性与最优协调性之间的接近度高于0.45;马鞍山市和芜湖市的城市物流与城市经济之间的协调性较低,城市物流对促进城市经济的作用不明显;合肥都市圈平均接近度为0.45。因此合肥都市圈各城市应提升物流与经济发展之间的协调性,以实现合肥都市圈经济一体化,促进城市物流与经济协调发展。     

我国城市体育文化与城市文化的相容性分析

随着物质生活水平的逐步提高,人们越来越重视城市的文化功能.但是在现实中,我国的城市发展过于强调经济指标,而忽视了文化建设,导致许多城市面临着文化缺失的问题.体育文化与城市文化,是社会主义文化的重要组成部分.文章分析总结了我国城市发展中的文化缺失现象,对体育文化与城市文化发展的相容性进行分析,认为促进体育文化的发展在一定程度上丰富了城市文化,增加了城市文化的内涵与活力,是繁荣城市文化的重要途径.提出要在塑造文化价值观、创建独特的文化发展模式、协调好文化事业和文化产业的关系、促进文化互动交流和文化创新等几个方面来推进城市体育文化的发展.     

长跑运动的商业价值与健身价值互动研究

长跑运动是田径运动中的一类项目,在各级各类的田径比赛中,长跑都是必备的项目.而对于大众健身,长跑运动又是最受欢迎和最有效的运动锻炼方式,健身的跑步机就是为长跑运动爱好者准备的.正是因为长跑运动有这样的群众基础,所以商家开始在长跑运动上动脑筋,努力开发其商业价值,近年来流行的城市马拉松比赛无疑是长跑运动商业化开发的成功案例.在城市道路上举行的各种类型的长跑比赛本身就是一种很好的宣传,加之大众的参与和城市知名度的扶持,使得诸如城市马拉松比赛等长跑运动的健康价值和商业价值越来越受到商家乃至政府的青睐.     

The structure of the South Korean developmental regime and its transformation – statist mobilization and authoritarian integration in the anticommunist regimentation

Through the lens of consumption at Chinese Starbucks, this paper examines the lifestyle and attitudes of parts of the mainland Chinese urban middle class, especially of the so-called xiaozi. Based on interviews with and guestbook entries by customers I analyze how the foreign brand and the multitude of meanings associated with it are consumed. I argue that consumption may be viewed as a particular search for authenticity that enables consumers to construct their self-images in the context of the vast changes occurring in contemporary China. A foreign brand promises to be especially valuable as it promises the authenticity of an ‘other’ on which one's own desires may be projected.     

Seoul and the time in motion: urban form and political consciousness

Abstract

This paper explores the political effects of the cognitive change in the visual environment of colonial Seoul. It asks how the new urban imagery was perceived by the Korean population. It analyzes the ways in which they experienced urban forms, techniques of advertisement and urban infrastructure such as street‐cars and trains. It argues that the engagement of people with mobility, urban symbols and spectacles in the colonial city had stimulated different ways of seeing and thinking about who they were and what they had become, a new collective identity that is neither a subject of the Chos[obreve]n dynasty nor the Japanese colonial state. This paper demonstrates that colonial Seoul represented not only the technique of Japanese colonial subjugation but also generated a new grammar for imagining new identity and difference. The urban environment of the colonial city reflects not entirely a strategy of the colonizer but a tactic of the colonized in appropriating the different meanings of new social life, which was brought by, but not exclusively under, the control of colonial space and time.     

Comfort,Class and Climate Change: The Rise of Glass in Late Medieval and Early Modern Domestic Architecture

ABSTRACT

In the modern world, glass windows are considered an indispensable element of the built environment. Throughout premodern times, however, glass was not universally used in European architecture. This article argues that the rise of glass in Western architecture was neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but rather a response to certain social, cultural and environmental factors that gained increasing relevance from the late medieval period onwards. In other words, glass windows are a cultural convention, reflecting some of the wide-ranging and transformative challenges that Europeans faced in the late medieval and early modern period.     

Space and the City

ABSTRACT

Influenced by interdisciplinary studies and the ‘spatial turn’ in social history, this article explores the relationship between space and the construction of gender identity amongst the poor to middling sorts of seventeenth-century Norwich. To this end I have considered gendered interaction in different ‘types' of space: domestic, private space, ‘borderline’ space – such as the alehouse or threshold – and, finally, the public space of streets and markets. Each section explores the relevance of recent spatial historiography in the Norwich context, and evaluates whether men and women inhabited different ‘worlds' in the city, not only in terms of their physical movement or access to certain places but also, more importantly, in terms of how their presence was perceived, and thus their identity shaped by others. The empirical basis is primarily defamation depositions of the Norwich Diocese Court, largely used by the middling sorts, contextualized where appropriate with secular court records.     

论资源型城市的可持续发展

城市作为一个区域实体,要实现可持续发展,一是经济上要有创新能力,二是城市发展与环境相协调,建立生态城市.资源的不可再生性和局限性,决定了资源型城市必然面临着"矿竭城衰"局面,要解决这个问题,实现可持续发展,必须实施城市转型.